Sunday, December 22, 2013

DOWNLOADCassette Demo, No. 1. Released August, 2013.20mins (presented on one side of a 40min tape)

Very interesting release (consisting of an intro and 4 unnamed tracks), but I have nearly no info about the band. The only thing they've provided me is the contact address: krawwl.mmxiii(at)gmail(dot)com. They also participated in the "Endless Torment" compilation by Cvlt Nation.

P.S. There's still a lot more demos in my incoming mail, many of which similarly lacking info about the bands/artists themselves. I'll probably take a rest until the new year, and then look into all these demos (with help of my co-editors) when I'll have free time. Stay tuned.

A release by one of my Baltimore-based readers. After looking at the album cover and track names, you might this it's just yet another atmospheric/depressive BM project. It isn't quite true; while it's indeed based on atmospheric BM/DSBM, it actually incorporates elements of different BM subgenres.

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This single was released because the upcoming full-length album (titled "Huldufólk") is still in the works and not going to be released anytime soon. However, a preview of "Huldufólk" is already available here. As for this single, it's good as always, and fortunately there's no vocals (which were the weakest part of "Den Siste Bastion").

We have a long history of mutual support with निद्रा (aka Nidra), so I decided to post their newest LP here, even though they're neither an openly political band, nor a black metal band by now. This album is more or less pure doom metal, not much reminds of their BM roots. That said, it's a great album, probably one of the best releases by the ex-USSR doom metal scene. The vocal work could be better, though, but otherwise it's very good and definitely recommended to everyone, especially to those who liked their early releases (btw, they got their foreign audience mostly because of my blog; hope this post will help too).

After I mentioned Redneck Warmachine in my Radagast post, people started to ask me where to download their demo, as it turned out to be quite hard to find. Well, here it is. I also received a message from one of the members of RD. According to him, the band is on hiatus right now, but hopefully there will be more releases in the future. The one and only RD demo was recorded two years ago.

Intense metallic crust/d-beat from Estonia, aggressive, fast (definitely breaking the stereotype of "Estonian slowness"!), and primitive. PD were formed in 2010 in Tartu. They've discovered my blog not so long ago and thought that their newest album "D-Day..." (released 1st of September 2013) would fit in well. I think so too. ;)

Another band that mixes blackened crust with doom/sludge, and whose releases already were featured on my blog before. Here's 2 tracks from their newest split 12'' w/ Melbourne-based band Whitehorse. There's more blackened crust and less doom/sludge, if compared with their earlier stuff. Whitehorse's side of the split can be found here.

A new EP from this Nashville-based "war doom from Hell" band, definitely better than their debut demo: much heavier, more BM- and old school death metal-influenced. The band members adhere to the DIY punk ethos.

One more demo submitted for possible inclusion on my blog, on which I'd agree with this review: it's definitely one of the best demos I heard in the last few months. Despite black metal imagery, the music itself is much closer to death metal/grindcore and (at times) doom/sludge. Very powerful release, highly recommended!

Kiffin Rogers - Guitar, Vocals

Michael Lawrence - Guitar

Alan Wells - Bass, Vocals

David Sroczynski - Drums

Recorded by Alan Wells with assistance from Keith Bracy (Little Rock, AR)

4 new tracks from Almanac (whose debut release was posted on my blog this spring), soon to be released on a split tape w/ Malaysian noisecore band Shitnoise Bastards.

"Almanac return with four blistering, yet refined tracks of their
scathing black metal-punk attack. A slightly cleaner and more
atmospheric sound for this recording demonstrates the matured and
evolving sound of the one man project. The four incantations that follow
conjure forth the power of the seasons only truly attainable on the
date of its manifestation- Halloween.
Tape SOON available on Total Shit Productions, Malaysia.
shitnoisebastards.blogspot.com"

Political noise/industrial/ambient project from Murom (~400km from Moscow), started in 2010 by Vladimir "Dissonance" (as of now, The Dead Process is a duo consisting of Vladimir and Xenia). Maybe not exactly anarchist, but definitely left wing. Honestly, this EP is nothing special in terms of sound, but I think they deserve respect for their social awareness, as well as for being a live project which is touring even small provincial towns where most people don't even know what "industrial" or "noise" music is.

Very intense blackened crust from Seattle, somewhat monotonous yet very brutal and powerful. A short review of "Barbarian Hellstorm" can also be found here.

"This is a blackened D-beat project, but rather than lyrical themes of
nuclear warfare it focuses on fantasy realms of tolkien/d&d etc. Hope it can find a place on RABM although it is not a political band"

Well... can't say it's that amazing, but it's certainly a good debut which shows a lot of potential. Definitely recommended for everyone who's into Cascadian scene. And for those who's into crustgrind, Redneck Warmachine album "Cryptic Basement Terror" is highly recommended too.

"Irony was born at the end of 2009 in Brussels (Belgium)
by Belial and Saami as a crossover project, they were soon joined byCezary on drums and started
to mix up them influences to made something between the 80's hardcore,
thrash metal, crust punk and some kidding lyrics to protest against
serious bands that are talking about stuff they don't even understand to
look "trve"...

"Strictly unorthodox black metal from Praha", finally released their first cassette titled "Nářky věčného zatracení". The music is indeed unorthodox, and sounds more like industrial than metal at times (track #4 for example), but overall it's black metal (albeit avant-garde). The cover image is a still from Béla Tarr's experimental movie "The Turin Horse".All the tapes are soul out by now, but you still can visit their bandcamp page and buy their mp3 for whatever price you want, if you wish to support the Czech antifascist BM compilation they would be part of.

Monday, December 9, 2013

JØTNARR are a new 3-piece blackened crust band whose first 2-track rehearsal demo is available off their bandcamp page. According to the band, they've found my blog while searching for Orhorho. A short review of their demo can be found here.

Saturday, December 7, 2013

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Hardcore/metal from the heart for Siberia (Novosibirsk). Definitely recommended to those who are into Holy Terror HC (I think it'd go without saying, though; the cover art speaks for itself). I've listened to this EP right after it was released (a month and a half ago), but I didn't knew that they read my blog.

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Both Fifteen Dead and Wölfe already were featured on my blog before, so I think they need no introduction. It's strange, though, that I didn't knew about this spit until last week, even though it was released in 2012. P.S. It's also funny that the album poster is an 11Mb file, while all the mp3's altogether are only 8.5Mb.

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The 3rd release from Larva ov Cum, with all the hallmarks of LoC - mainly, clean vocals and political/satirical lyrics. As far as I can understand, the lyrics are mostly a satire of the current political situation in Italy, and the album title is an apparent homage to the Irish Republicanism. Personally I was never a big fan of the IRA; moreover, I think the prayer of IRA (a predominantly Catholic organization) isn't the best choice for an intro of a black metal album.(as it turned out, "ira" is just Italian for "anger", so I probably wasn't right in my guess. Well, nevermind) However, if you liked two previous LoC albums, I think you'll like this one as well.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

This is the first time when I receive an album from my Moroccan readers. Abnabak was formed in 2009 in Agadir as an one-man project of Aggor, "influenced by the dark abyss of philosophy and the differents faces of deep schizophrenia". The bandname means "anonymous" in Amazigh (Berber) language. Musically it's just standard early 90's-style black metal... but I definitely know which of my readers is interested in stuff like that. For more Amazigh metal, see here.

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Dusk are from Minneapolis, two of their members were formerly in Toil. According to them, all of them identify themselves as anarchists. Here's their debut EP, consisting of 4 unnamed instrumental tracks:

"I wouldn't call our music blackened in any way. It is haunting and
sorrowful drone metal, with heavy influences from Earth. And while there
are no lyrics (hence hard to interpret as political), we certainly hold
that making DIY music is a political act and I view this music as
de-alienated creative labor"

In the wake of ongoing protests in Ukraine, it's time to remind that the history of protest movements in Ukraine isn't limited to "orange-ism". Since I already have posted a lot of non-metal folk albums, this folk-rock release would fit in too.

"Знамя цвета ночи" is a concept work about the story of Nestor Makhno's army. Some of the lyrics (tracks #1, #2, #7 and #9, for example) are actualy poetry of Makhno and his close associates. Tracks #4, #5, #6, #8, #10 are authentic folk, anarchist, & cossack songs (of course I mean real cossacks with their traditions of independence and self-governance, and not Putin-loving clowns in ridiculous pseudo-historical outfits that call themselves "cossacks" nowadays). The lyrics for track #3 were written by a modern anarchist author, V.Platonenko.

The band members themselves are from Donetsk (Donbass, Easten Ukraine - which isn't that far from Gulay-Pole, historical Makhno's headquarters). The music is very rich and interesting, definitely recommended to those who are interested in more "punk-ish" side of folk rock... and of course to everyone who's interested in the history of one of the greatest attempts of struggle for human liberation, which is Russian civil war in general, and the story of Makhno's Black Army in particular (the second greatest example of such struggle being Spanish civil war, and the third one is currently ongoing in Syrian Kurdistan).

ATT is a non-metal project of the members of Kil.Disneyland and Mother Disobedience, formed in 2000 in Athens and released several albums so far. Here's their newest full-length album called "Ptosi" ("Downfall"). To be honest, I don't fully understand this kind of music: it's pretty far from both punk and metal, rather no-wave/post-punk with darkwave/industrial elements, with (mostly) spoken word lyrics. However, if you like DIY experimental post-punk sound from the 80's (Swans etc.), you may find this album interesting.

Friday, November 29, 2013

bandcamp One more Cascadian acoustic folk project, maybe not as good as Disemballerina, but still very decent. Sparrowhawk is a 3-piece project of Rowan, Zacharias and Ursula (members of Nuwisha and Plantrae), started in the autumn of 2013.

"Disemballerina’s core commiserated and lit their first floor candles in
2009 with a friendship sparked between guitarist Ayla Holland and
violist/harpist Myles Donovan. Veterans of many louder bands over the
years in the D.I.Y. Metal scene on both coasts, the two bonded over a
shared love of chamber music, funereal doom and ritualistic ceremony as
well as a mutual estrangement in their
participating subcultures due to being out, freakish and queer.
Originally a 3 piece joined by cellist Melissa Collins, the band has
gone through a number of other string players over the years, most
recently last collaborating with Lost Lockets violinist Fiona Petra and
currently Marit Schmidt of Vradiazei"Even though it isn't metal at all, I think it should be here, as it's very beautiful music from Cascadia (namely Portland, OR) whose performers apparently share a lot of our views. As mentioned above, Disemballerina started as a 3-piece band, but now they have 4 members in their lineup:

They describe their style as "outsider classical / acoustic doom-metal / goth chamber music". While it's certainly not metal, they're definitely influenced by atmospheric BM and funeral doom (just like in case with another similar project, Hex Pertners). Anyway, this album is great, and I strongly recommend it for everyone.

"The Dark Wizard Rintrah has recorded one message each year since 2001.
Sent to human beings from his cave home deep within the earth, the
recordings seem to serve as warnings that humanity must cease its abuse
and exploitation of the earth and its creatures or risk imminent
extinction. The Message retrieval team has come to believe that the Dark
Wizard Rintrah is himself a former human being"

Now, are you prepared for some really unusual stuff? Even though Rintrah's music is mostly influenced by black metal, it defies any genre categorization: it has acoustic guitar, microtonal organ, and electronics/drum machine. Definitely not for everyone's liking, and even a lot of "unorthodox" metal fans may find this EP way too strange, but if you aren't sure whether to download it or not, you can listen to it first on bandcamp. Rintrah is from Maine / New England, and "Messages from the Deep" is a collection of four single-song demos from 2007-2011. Ideologically, Rintrah can be roughly described as anarcho-primitivist.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Haven't posted anything here for a long time due to serious problems with my internet connection. Right now the only option for me is to post via 3g modem, which is pretty slow, so I doubt I'd be able to upload much. Hope my co-editors will help me, though.

And right now I want to post this song, which is dedicated to various Kurdish resistance movements - including the YPG, which currently the last hope for Syria and the only significant armed group in the modern world that's heavily influenced by anarchist ideas (namely Murray Bookchin's anarcho-federalism):

Most people in this video aren't members of YPG, though - mostly HPG and other groups related to the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). Personally I don't know much about PKK, but the opinion of Kurdish anarchists on them (judging from the interviews I've read) is pretty low. YPG, on the other side, are a completely legit rebel group that has a lot of anarchist qualities, and they're doing very good in the recent few months - for example, they have completely defeated the al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq & Levant in the whole region of Ras al-Ayn (northern Syria) with very little losses, and also took over the strategic town of Tel-Kojar (al-Yarubiya) near the border crossing with Iraq. With more than 40000 militants on their side (not only Kurds, but also Arabs, Armenians, Assyrians), YPG is currently one of the most powerful rebel armies in Syria.

Of course Cihan Kilic's song is hardly metal, but unfortunately there's not much Kurdish rock & metal at all - most of their political music is folk and rap. Check out this band from Turkish Kurdistan, though:

That'll be enough for today, I think. Hope I'd be able to post at least some more music in the next few weeks (I have a lot of submissions, but i definitely don't think I'd be able to post all of it on my own...)

"As a statement against ("distrust for") man and all "his norms and
values and the society based on them (first and foremost money and
consumer culture)", all the band's music is available for free download.
Nevertheless, they also offer physical copies on request.

Negativvm stated in their official website the following words: "We
strongly disagrees with any racist, sexist and other fascist opinions.
We will not share stages, recordings or any form of organizational
structure with bands and persons promoting this kind of worldview""This statement sounds pretty good, and their music is top notch too. Haven't checked out their debut album ("Tronie", 2011) yet, but I hope it's no worse than this one.

Sunday, September 22, 2013

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Orhorho are a duo playing crusty black metal, featuring one of Gottesmorder's members on guitar & vocals. It's their first demo, recorded live ~2 weeks ago and consisting of three untitled tracks.

"All music composed and recorded by AF. Thresholder features Alex Mody on
drums, Emily Metcalf with additional vocals and cello, and Jason Leher
on flute. Drums were recorded by Jon Lervold at Big Name Studio. Artwork
by James Hauptman. Thanks to Willy Walker, Jon Lervold, and Tommy
Thompson for their help and advice. All donations for the download of
this album will go directly towards the physical release"

As for me, I noticed this band for the first time when this demo was posted on this trackblog few months ago. Both members of Primary Stress have side projects: Ryley plays guitar in Hex Partners (mostly acoustic/neofolk project, but strongly influenced by atmospheric doom metal, atmospheric BM, post-punk, queercore, etc.), and Julia plays bass in Life Chain (noisy d-beat).

It's the first time when I receive a demo from Guatemala. Of course, "Forever Black Metal..." sounds VERY amateur-ish in terms of both production and songwriting, but that was expected. There isn't much info about Ab Eterno, except that they're a duo from Guatemala City, and one of their source of inspiration were WWII songs, particularly the Red Army Choir (track #3; the other tracks are just standard black metal stuff). Somewhat reminding me of Voland; and just like Voland's only EP, "Forever Black Metal..." was released under the terms of Creative Commons license.

"It is about materialist concept of Satan. It is all about RABM" (c)
There's not much further info about this project, but I found the music to be very good. You can also read an essay that comes along with the music, if you wish.

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P.S. I have several more demos from the projects of which I don't have much info. Right now I don't have much time to review them, plus I probably won't be able to update this blog for the next couple of weeks at least, so have some patience. There's also some info that Profecium are back, and their new album is going to be released in 2014 (after more than 15 years of silence). This would be great news if it's true; but then again, I don't have much futher info.

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The newest release of Ancst, which is probably their best work so far. It was already reviewed here, to which I have not much to add to, except that this split is very good, but a bit short. Looking forward for even beteer material from them in the future!

This album, recorded in 2012 and physically released in 2013, was recommended to me by Negation Records as suitable for my blog. You can order it on tape here, along with Flagellant's "Apotheosis", if you wish. Musically, it's somewhat unorthodox black metal (I think it's closer to DSBM than to any other subgenre). I don't expect everyone to like "Sinepmaskok", but personally I found it to be quite interesting.

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A new and really promising one-man project from Czech Republic. The person behind it claims to be a fan of my blog and bands like Panopticon, WITTR, Marnost, Anastatica etc. "Passive Resistance" contains 3 tracks of mostly doom metal with some BM elements; the quality of recording is... well, not great (there's some crackle, and the vocal effects sound somewhat cheap), but overall it's pretty decent for a debut recording of an one-man band. Conceptually it deals with the topics of war, devastation, and post-apocalyptic themes in general. Currently, Forgotten Dawn is only a side project whose sole member is active in several other bands (which aren't explicitly anarchist, though, unlike this one).

"To sum up the band we like to play hard fast and offensive and hate
authority weather it be imposed by the state, religious, academic, or
scientific institutions or on the basis of sexuality, gender, ethnicity, class
or any grounds other than respect. The demo was recorded in a jam room raw with
no overdubs or mastering and was quite rushed so it is presented warts and all. We are
rarely blessed enough to play live so it would be great to see what people who
read your site make of our music. We plan to go in to record more formally in
early October with the same engineer who produced the Disease Process album,
which is also reviewed on your blog. Members from Disease Process and ForeignAIDS also play in
another band who will be recording soon..."

This obscure Montevideo-based band is essentially apolitical, and the lyrical themes on this EP are more or less standard: vampirism, the occult, Charles Baudelaire's poetry, etc.; but at least now I know that my blog has readers in Uruguay too! Like in case with Abbey ov Thelema, I can't say much about the music, because I'm not a big fan of this kind of melodic black / extreme gothic metal, but maybe there are some among my readers who are into it.

This band, whose style is somewhere in between of post-rock, funeral doom and depressive BM, was already mentioned in my "post-rock night" entry, and here's the newest EP from them. It had been already reviewed in our Greek comrades' blog, so I have only to post the links to the band's official pages:

Thursday, August 29, 2013

I've spent the previous week ~1000km away from home and couldn't update my blog, but now I have some time to go through my mail. Let's start from this demo, which doesn't feature anything innovative (as it's said on its cover), just standard raw black metal, but it's worth being posted here - because I do agree with them on "that it is very nice when people speak out against NSBM". More stuff coming soon, stay tuned.

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First of all: there's probably a lot of broken English on this blog. Hope it isn't that bad, at least I'm trying to do my best. Feel free to point me to any of my mistakes, if there are any. -B.K.

If you're playing in a band and want to see your music featured on our blog - just send a download link of your demo to us:

- oiseau [@] riseup [.] net - for basically anything RABM-related, but she is generally interested in atmospheric, depressive, and post-BM stuff, as well as the projects from Latin America (and Mexico in particular). You can also contact her via facebook.

- band name, release name/year, country of origin, album cover image (or at least band photo or logo);

- track listing (properly numbered);

- preferably a full release (not samples or streaming) in mp3/m4a/ogg (128kbps or higher bitrate). You may use any free filesharing site (preferably Mediafire) to host your files; or you can use Bandcamp (but then make sure your release is available for free download). *** NO LARGE ATTACHMENTS PLEASE!!! ***;

- any other info about you and your release (links to any sites related to your band, release notes, etc.);

- reason why you want your music to be featured on our blog (note that it's not just another metal blog, and even if your band is apolitical, it still should be somehow in the spirit of RABM movement).

Most of the uploads here are band sanctioned. Anyway, if you for some reason don't want to see your music here, contact us via email (rabmblog [@] gmail [.] com), and we'll consider taking it down.

If you wish to become a contributor for this blog, send a message to rabmblog [@] gmail [.] com. The obvious requirements are: being supportive of the RABM movement, good proficiency in English, and willingness to review lots of albums on a regular basis.

FAQ

Q.: Which kinds of music are featured on this blog?

A.: - (primarily) RABM or Red & Anarchist Black Metal: all kinds of black metal-related music charged with radical leftist (anarchist, libertarian socialist, eco-anarchist, etc.) political views. Some of the bands featured here may be not openly political, but all of them are RABM-friendly;

- blackened crust/hardcore/punk (only if it's openly RABM-friendly, or if it's just very good music; we have no intention to collect here all the blackened punk in existence);

A.: Most bands nowadays have a bandcamp page, where you can but their stuff online (usually for an arbitrary price). It's the most convinient way to support the band. If your favourite band don't have a bandcamp or bigcartel page, try to find out in which distro you can find their albums/merch. Of course, go to concerts if you have such opportunity.

Q.: How can I offer my financial support to this blog, or the RABM movement in general?

A.: Unfortunately right we don't have an opportunity to accept donations, but we hope we'll be able to set it up soon.

Q.: What is the connection between black metal and hardcore/punk/crust?

A.: It's a well-established fact that the connection between black metal and punk scenes existed since the early days of BM (think Venom, early Bathory, early Mayhem and early Sodom on one side, and Amebix, Discharge and Axegrinder on another). Recently this mix of BM and hardcore punk got a new life in the form of blackened crust (thanks to Black Kronstadt / Iskra in first place). And don't forget about Cascadian black metal bands with their radical environmentalist ideology, often to the extent of radical eco-anarchism or "pro-nature/anti-humanity" ideas.

Q.: What's your main ideology?

A.: This blog is generally written from a position of anarchism without adjectives; however, the RABM scene is very diverse ideologically. Let us end on this, as this blog isn't quite a right place for purely political debates; if you want to learn or argue about anarchism/other ideologies, there's a lot of specialized FAQs/blogs/forums for you.

Q.: Isn't black metal supposed to be apolitical?

A.: Supposed by whom? I personally don't think so, but if you think that political awareness should have no place in "true" black metal, you can feel free to call the bands featured on here "blackened punk" or whatever you want. It should be noted, though, that a lot of these bands doesn't openly talk about politics in their lyrics, exactly because they think it wouldn't be suitable for black metal. - B.K.

Q.: Isn't RABM just an "answer" to NSBM?

A.: While RABM is definitely against NSBM and any other kind of far-right crap in metal scene, it's most emphatically a self-sufficient movement and not any kind of "answer to NSBM". Similarly, while RABM is 100% pro liberation from any kinds of religious tyranny, it isn't a movement against any particular religion (Christianity, Islam, or any other).

Q.: What's your opinion on Satanism?

A.: The so-called "Hollywood Satanism", which is often found in black metal, is, in our opinion, nothing more than inverted Christianity, so we aren't big on it. Many of us are simply atheists, pagans of all kinds, gnostics, etc. We also don't share the notion that only genuine theistic Satanists / Devil-worshippers can play "real" black metal (this would exclude such bands as Venom, Bathory, Immortal, Summoning, and many many others). Additionally, the very term "Satanism" is quite vague, and can't be narrowed down to LaVeyan Satanism (which is heavily disliked by many black metallers), or whatever else. LaVey had some good points, but in general his philosophy can be described just as "Ayn Rand with some occult tinge".

Q.: What about misanthropy and nihilism?

A.: To put it in short: we don't hate everyone and everything (and we don't think there's anyone﻿ who truly does). We just hate these traits of humanity which make true anarchist society most likely infeasible in the foreseeable future.

Q.: Collectivism or individualism?

A.: There actually is no "hard" contradiction between these two terms. Individualism is simply an outlook emphasizes the moral worth of the individual and its right not to be oppressed by the state or some social group. It doesn't contradict at all with standing up for your rights along with a group of like-minded individuals. It also worth noting that the early black metal scene didn't promote individualism that much (see "black metal circles").

Q.: Who coined the term "RABM"?

A.: Hard to say, but there's an apparent similarity to RASH ("Red & Anarchist Skinheads"). Here's the very first mention of "RABM" we could find (August 2005). The term was popularized by our last.fm group (and later - by this blog) since 2009.

Q.: Do you know the ideology of the band X? It isn't obvious if they're NSBM or not...

A.: Sorry, we don't know, do your own research. It's often hard to say anything certain about a band's views, if the members themselves aren't open about it. We also don't advice using various "lists of nazi bands" etc. as a reference, as most of them are full of bullshit. Similarly, forum posts or blog comments (especially anonymous ones) generally aren't a reliable source for anything. In one particular case, we had an anonymous comment claiming that the members of Timebomb are now playing in a fascist band called SPQR. Later it turned out that it were members of a completely other Italian band with a similar name (Timebombs). Hopefully that'd be a good example of how important fact-checking is.

Q.: I've seen some of the albums posted here in the same distro with some albums by right-leaning bands...

A.: Unfortunately it's often the case with distros and labels that distribute stuff regardless of its political affiliation. Even Austin Lunn of Panopticon complained about Pagan Flames (the label which released his "Collapse" and "Social Disservices" LPs) having NSBM in their distro, so things like these are just unavoidable.

Q.: Some bands on this blog have Burzum on their list on influences. Isn't Varg Vikernes a nazi?